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According to Terry Bourke's account,
after Emily Perry threatened to sue Grundys for libelling her in a plotline similar in some details to her own trial, cut versions of the seven episodes involving Edna Pearson were prepared for showing in Adelaide.
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These cut versions were also shown in most UK regions, apart from Meridian which showed some (but not all) of the original versions.
Channel 5 disappointed many fans by not showing all of the originals: in fact they showed only two of the original uncut versions, less than Meridian did.
For reasons best known to themselves, Grundy appear to have supplied Malta's Channel One with the original versions of all seven episodes for showing in March 2000.
The Australian DVD release in 2008 used the cut versions of all the Edna episodes. For more details see the Canberra Prisoner page
A double disc set called "The Edna Pearson atory" was released in the UK in February 2010, making the full versions available on DVD for the first time. I have added the timings for the episodes on these discs to the table below. Slight differences from the previously calculated "uncut" timings can be attributed to differences in editing of final credits and commercial break intro and outro. There was no "uncut" version in the set to restore the three small dialogue cuts in episode 471
The table below shows the approximate timings of the episodes in the
versions I have seen - including credits but excluding commercial breaks.
If you have any information on the versions shown in other regions or countries,
please let me know.
| Granada | Meridian | Channel 5 | Malta | Sweden | DVD release | Uncut DVD release |
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| Episode 463 | 41 mins 30 seconds | 41 mins 30 seconds | 41:25 | Original version [45:42] | 45:12 | 41:53 | 45:36 |
| Episode 464 | 42 mins | 42 mins | 40:59 (extra cut!) | Original version [44:35] | 44:03 | 42:34 | 44:33 |
| Episode 465 | 37 mins | Original version [45:04] | 36:43 mins | Original version | 45:19 | 37:20 | 46:02 |
| Episode 466 | 38 mins | 38 mins | 36:36 (extra cut!) | Original version [43:15] | 42:59 | 38:38 | 43:40 |
| Episode 467 | 38 mins | Original version [45:30] | Original version | Original version | 45:41 | 38:12 | 46:21 |
| Episode 468 | 39 mins | Original version [43:30] | Original version [43:30] | Original version | 43:58 | 40:30 | 44:41 |
| Episode 469 | 33 mins | Original version [44:35] | 33:02 | Original version | 44:49 | 33:32 | 45:10 |
| Episode 470 | - | 44:13 | 43:56 | - | 45:04 | 44:36 | 44:36 |
| Episode 471 | - | - | 42:21 | - | - | 42:49 | - |
Updated 08 February 2010